Rodders Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 agreed, I love American Gods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Just finished "The Devils" By Dostoyevsky, stunning read. Next I'm moving Death and the Penguin, looks like a novel concept! I loved Death and the Penguin - recommended it to a 'mate' and lent him my copy.. fecker ran off with it :evil: I'm currently working my way through a load of 'kid lit'. I'm a librarian so am telling myself it's research!!! My 16 yr old forced me to read Darren Shan's Demonata series ( I'ld bought it for him one christmas knowing nothing other than the fact it was about Demons and popular! ) and am totally hooked!!! Have also been reading Applegate's Remnants series and a couple of books by Louis Lowry; The Giver and Gathering Blue. Children's literature has come a long way from the stuff I read as a kid! Am probably going to try a few graphic novels next, my kids ( 9, 11, & 16 ) are all hooked on the Bone series and nagging me to read them. Gotta love the holidays that go with working in a school! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Just read The Moscow Club by Joseph Finder - pretty decent run-of-the-mill espionage/thriller Now reading The Dead Yard by Adrian McKinty about an Irish ex-con forced into working for MI5 to infiltrate a Boston based splinter group of the IRA - started well and easy to read! Would recommend Bangok Tattoo by John Burdett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 4, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted August 4, 2008 I'm almost through John B. Lundstrom's The First Team and The Guadalcanal CampaignThank you - that's just gone on my Amazon wish list. EDIT: On a related subject, have you read E. B. Sledge's "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted August 4, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted August 4, 2008 Just finished Cormac Mccarthys The Road (highly recommended) and moved onto his Blood Meridian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Just started reading 'Into the darkness' - An account of 7/7. I wanted to find a book with accounts of what people went through, its well written and really makes you think about the events of that day. I'm about 25 pages in atm and it just makes me think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 just finished watchmen and it was amazing got drawn in from the film but inevitably the book is probably better about to start the new bond book devil may care which ive heard is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd72 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Ive read papilion and some books about the ww2 great book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santa_Rosa Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Read Hemingway's 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' recently, and it has moved straight to the top of my all-time favourite list. It's flawless - every word is absolutely necessary and absolutely perfect. Just brilliant. Just finished "The Promise of Happiness" by Justin Cartwright, which is excellent too. Anything by Ian Mcewan or Iain Banks usually hits the spot, as does Harlen Coben or Michael Connolly when I fancy something a bit more easy going. Just started on some Stephen Ambrose as I fancy watching Band of Brothers again, and want to get in the mood for it. Pegasus Bridge is first up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Just finished the His Dark Materials trilogy. I was a bit disappointed to be honest. I enjoyed the first two books and the first third of The Amber Spyglass, but the last part bored me to tears and was a chore to read. There's no doubt that it was brilliantly written and Pullman has a phenomenal imagination and intellect, but I felt that after all the build-up, the story sadly just fizzled out. There's no way that they're children's books though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted October 24, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2008 Yet another expedition to B&N brought back the following booty: Joseph Finder's The Company Man Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor (with commentary by Jason Zweig) Three complete novels from John LeCarre: Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Bro. Tim Wallace-Murphy's The Enigma of the Freemasons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anything11 Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 i've been ploughing through bukowski's novel as of late, i've read factotum/ham on rye/post office and next is women which i've heard is the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santa_Rosa Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Just started The Night Gardner by George Pelecanos, one of the writers on The Wire. I got it from a bloke in Switzerland on the excellent book exchange site Bookmooch, which I would highly recommend - Checkitowt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 24, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted October 24, 2008 My current novel is "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson. Really enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaninireland Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Currently reading Slash's autobiography. Excellent read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 'The Last Godfathers' by John Follain charts the history of the Corleonese mafia. Starts around the time of Mussolini and concludes early this year. Brutal, high body count, but since it purports to be assembled from judicial documents, testimony, wiretaps etc etc, it seems to be a pretty together document of what was going on. Silvio Berlusconi plays his part, he saves the mafia from virtual annihilation - hmmmm. Not usually my sort of book, found it on the tube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Not being the worlds greatest sleeper so far this week I've read Clive Cussler - Skeleton Coast - more of the same from Cussler but this one i thought was his best for a while The Alchemist's Secret by Scott Mariani - liked this a lot and the character Ben Hope is going to run like Jack Reacher based on this ... no messing every bad guy is given a double tap to the head to make sure , none of this villains back from the dead mularkey you get from some books .. Currently reading Break on Through : The Life and Death of Jim Morrison by James Riordan it's a big thumping book other wise I'd probably have read it by now but should be finished by tonight ... Morrison has to be the craziest person to walk the planet , I thought after reading Heavier than heaven that Cobain had problems , he is a boy scout alongside Morrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 i am having such a problem reading at the moment keep getting distracted. Had to go to the library to do some today. Got a book on Voltaire and some of his stories, started off with a shorty ' micromegas', quite amusing. I've stop/started on Candide a bit, so I might just go back to modern lit. I have a William Boyd book on the table really hoping something gets me back into the reading swing of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 really hoping something gets me back into the reading swing of things. William Boyd Voltaire Candide think i can see your problem .. sometimes you just have to switch your brain off and read a bit of trash , nobody reads Boyd for fun ..nobody :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellyoakvilla Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 House of Leaves by Mark z. Danielewski. Bloody brilliant book. anyone read it? Still got a soft spot for Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh after all these years aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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